Defending Business Taxpayers and Exempt Organizations Against Property Tax Assessments

The Do's and Don'ts of Letters of Intent

Holdover Clauses, or Tenants Overstaying Their Welcome

A Guide to Affordable Housing and Community Development

Title Insurance Hot Topics Potpourri -- What's New in Title Insurance

Security Deposits, or Take the Money and Run

Wetlands Mitigation Alternatives

Living With What You've Drafted: Real Estate Finance Hot Tips and Workshop

Responding to the "Invisible" Disabilities: New Developments in the Law of Reasonable

Accommodations Under the Fair Housing Amendments Act

Environmental Risk Shifting

Restatement of Mortgage: From the Experts

Recording Bottlenecks; Problems and Solutions

Proposed Form Changes in AIA Documents

It's Not the Money; It's the Money (ethics program)

10th Annual Current Trends in Securitization

Probate and Trust Programs:

This year, in addition to traditional CLE at a basic level, the Probate and Trust Division will be holding "Open Group Meeting/Workshops." This format will provide opportunities to discuss issues, problems and solutions with a varied group of lawyers from different parts of the country and different types of practices, as well as to learn about current issues and practice techniques.

Committee Groups that will be holding these meetings/workshops include:

Significant Current Developments

Estate Planning for Families and Other Beneficiaries

Estate Planning for Business Owners

Charitable Planning and Exempt Organizations

Elder Law and Disability Planning

Employee Benefits Plans

Multi-Jurisdictional Planning

Litigation and Controversy

Planning Issues in Fiduciary Administration

Insurance Investment and Financial Planning

Ethical Issues Confronting Lawyers Acting in Other Roles

Technology in the Probate and Trust Practice

Traditional Probate and Trust CLE at a basic level will include:

Drafting Wills and Trusts

Drafting Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts

A Guide to Planning and Administering Estates

Program materials in hard copy, and in audiocassettes form will be available after the Annual Meeting. Please call Michelle Turner at (312) 988-5263 in the Chicago staff office for more information (after August 10). Programs will be MCLE accredited. Besides CLE, the Section will be offering about 80 committee meetings for members who: are currently working on committees, would like to become more involved, and/or are just curious about committee activity and projects. All Section members are invited to attend.

The Section headquarters will be at the Walt Disney Swan Hotel in Orlando. Continuing legal education programs and committee meetings will be held August 4-6. The deadline for advance registration is July 10.

For registration/housing information, call International Travel Service at (847) 940-2124.

ABA Web Site

When the ABA's new Web site at http://www.abanet.org debuted in March 1995, the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section was one of the first Sections to open its own Web site at that site. Over the past year, the Section has developed three Internet listservs (electronic e-mail discussion groups):

DIRT, for real property issues;

ABA-PLT, for probate; and estate planning issues; and

LNET-LLC for limited liability company and related entity issues.

Instructions for subscribing to these listservs can be found on the Section's Web site at /rppt/listservs.html.

Other listservs are currently being developed; information on these will be available soon.

Probate & Property Magazine is published six times annually and is included in section members' annual dues.